When gear addiction long surpasses your ability

Ball&Chain

Ball&Chain

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When is the line drawn?

Somewhere out there Gus is weeping.



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Lots of demos. Charvel, Wolfgang, LTD. I see a 5150III head.

So, the question is. Do you think there is a point where you should just stop on the gear obsession and just get down focusing on the guitar as an insturment? Im not trying to poke fun here and I know we've all been there, so none of us is immune, but it does pose that question.
 
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That's the exact kinda nut sack I'd envision buying an ESP Ltd. Gus G sig. Star.

Nice yellow polo, pink strap, pillow, and ugly guitars on the stand.
 
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I had this revelation awhile back.. I enjoy having the variety, but it became a pain trying to dig them out of storage. And, the guilt of having a bunch of great axes, even tho Im a squier level player and DONT have a gear budget. I have decided hard on thinning the herd and have sold down a bunch. Paid some bills and bought a really killer amp that has ended my quest there. I still have more guitars to thin out.. I wish I could force myself to get down to one LP, strat , tele and accoustic. But I have a few that Im gonna really suffer over parting with.

GJ, not sure what it says about me, but I had one of those.. Was actually a very fun guitar to play!
 
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I'm a terrible player with some seriously good gear. My guitars aren't high dollar (except the Yamaha Weddington), but I do have a Celtic Edana amp and quite a few great pedals. I have a bunch of amps and pedals as a matter of fact. I need to get off my butt and get that Vox wrapped up for JeffH come to think of it. I just have a lot going on at the moment with repairing the riding lawn mower. I think it would make the GF happy to get rid of that amp and get it out of the basement.
 
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I hope it found a good home if you sold it. 2 guitars ive been dying to look at are those gus g 600nts and the michael kelly patriots. The only thing in the gus g model Ive seen around are the 200 bolt ons. I picked one up off the stand at GC, thats about it. The 600 id like to spend a little time with though. Of course, I really plan on buying neither, at the moment at least. Something may end up being a reward christmas present on down the road when I get my chops back from a several year playing drought and I feel my playing warrants it, but not until.

My herd is pretty much non-existant now. I sold 2 guitars last winter and I just sold my Squier deluxe a few weeks back.

Im down to a Jackson DK2T and an Alvarez acoustic. Thats it. Heh, dont even have an amp. Just a POD Studio UX1 that I bought with some of the money I sold the squier for. I still have a v-amp2 that still sees very little light of day. I know, high end stuff right there.
 
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Gearjoneser said:
That's the exact kinda nut sack I'd envision buying an ESP Ltd. Gus G sig. Star.

Nice yellow polo, pink strap, pillow, and ugly guitars on the stand.
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If I was there in person, I'd be tempted to break off that whammy bar & hit him over the head with it.
 
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Ball&Chain said:
I hope it found a good home if you sold it. 2 guitars ive been dying to look at are those gus g 600nts and the michael kelly patriots. The only thing in the gus g model Ive seen around are the 200 bolt ons. I picked one up off the stand at GC, thats about it. The 600 id like to spend a little time with though. Of course, I really plan on buying neither, at the moment at least. Something may end up being a reward christmas present on down the road when I get my chops back from a several year playing drought and I feel my playing warrants it, but not until.

My herd is pretty much non-existant now. I sold 2 guitars last winter and I just sold my Squier deluxe a few weeks back.

Im down to a Jackson DK2T and an Alvarez acoustic. Thats it. Heh, dont even have an amp. Just a POD Studio UX1 that I bought with some of the money I sold the squier for. I still have a v-amp2 that still sees very little light of day. I know, high end stuff right there.
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No sale. It's free. Noone will buy it off me, so it's going to a good home where it will be used and hopefully loved.
 
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Just let it be. Somewhere some rich guy is making fun of us just the same.

"Oh what!? You say there are people who actually play those $2000 guitars? Those are like toys! No serious musician would ever play with something lesser than my Melvyn Franks/Peter Green/Gary Moore Custom Shop Les Paul through my Two Rock!"
 
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The only time that the level of the player and the level of his or her gear irritates me is when said person touts his gear with snobbery.

When they're humble about the skill level and their gear, like Bloodrose is, I'm perfectly fine with that.
If said piece of gear is going to excite you, make you want to play more, and improve yourself, more power to you bro! Keep it up.
 
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Gearjoneser said:
That's the exact kinda nut sack I'd envision buying an ESP Ltd. Gus G sig. Star.

Nice yellow polo, pink strap, pillow, and ugly guitars on the stand.
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Whoa whoa whoa you did not just call all those Charvels ugly. I'm not the biggest Charvel fan out there but those are some cool gats. Sure he's slapped a bunch of hideous stickers on 'em but still they are Charvels. The only one that isn't doing it for me though is the Random Star.
 
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Why did I even watch 10 seconds of that? Yeah that dude should not have that gear. Makes no sense. Learn to at least fake it OK before you get high end **** like that.
 
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I only think it's an issue when,

1) The person is unreasonably indebting themselves to afford luxury items they really don't need, or

2) The person attempts to talk down about others for using lesser gear when it's obvious that the person doesn't have the chops to be saying sh*t to anyone in the first place.
 
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I'm no hack, but I'm sure I'd be perfectly fine with half the gear I currently have.

The thing is, everything in my rig and every guitar on my rack is there for a real, music-related reason. Some stuff I have is to get a specific tone or effect that I want for a song. Some stuff is there to improve my tone across the board. Some stuff is there simply for redundancy's sake, so that if on the off chance something dies or breaks, I'm not completely screwed at a gig.

I don't believe I have the right to tell someone how they should be spending their money. I sure wouldn't want someone else doing the same to me.
 
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I like to think my gear is up to par with my abilities. You know what really grinds my gears? When I go to guitar center and see 16 year old dudes playing ****ty contemporary metal songs through $3000 guitars.

Or when they buy one guitar and mod it to sound like another...

... WHAT? DONT LOOK AT ME. I loooooooove the way my tele sounds in the neck. I LOOOOVE my tom delonge strat for being such an icon to me and other players my age.

the best example is my friend buying a tele and saying "i want it to sound heavier".

it's like... you should have bought a les paul.
 
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in the guitar center I go to, in order to touch the $2000 plus guitars, you have to be kareem abdul jabar with a 20 foot stick.

mostly $100 to $700 guitars within reach.
 
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kherman said:
If said piece of gear is going to excite you, make you want to play more, and improve yourself, more power to you bro! Keep it up.
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This.

GoDrex said:
Why did I even watch 10 seconds of that? Yeah that dude should not have that gear. Makes no sense. Learn to at least fake it OK before you get high end **** like that.
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A Korean LTD is "high end"?

ratherdashing said:
I don't believe I have the right to tell someone how they should be spending their money. I sure wouldn't want someone else doing the same to me.
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And This.


Some of the naysayers in this thread crack me up. Who gives a crap what the guy likes or can afford?...really. When I was about 10, I used to see some kind of "nasty" stuff on my dad's plate at dinner (the horror, he would mix his vegetables like peas and corn, or tomatoes and corn, or similar)- one day I got enough balls to say to him "thats nasty dad", to which he quickly replied "eat in your own damn plate, boy". Now I'm certainly opinionated about what I like and dislike, but I dont go around laying down the internet tough guy law about what people should and should not have based on their skill level (or lack thereof).
 
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Not sure why anyone would post such a horrible clip of themselves playing guitar. Perhaps he honestly believes that hes the shiz at guitar.... heh
 
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Ball&Chain said:
in the guitar center I go to, in order to touch the $2000 plus guitars, you have to be kareem abdul jabar with a 20 foot stick.

mostly $100 to $700 guitars within reach.
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While this is mostly true, I did go to a GC in orlando FL that had a 61 reissue SG on a stand, next to a marshall MG.
 
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